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What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel’s thriller ‘Seven Days in May,’ later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
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Enjoyment Life Military Reality Story
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
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Natural President Rise Suspicion
The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.
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Best Thinking Writing
Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Children Family Funny
Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever

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